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Kerry James Marshall, Black and Part Black Birds in America: (Pigeon and Black Capped Chickadee no 2), 2021. Acrylic on PVC panel in artist's frame, 30 x 24 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.2 x 7 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Fund, 2025.1
Hale A. Woodruff assisted by Robert L. Neal, The Repatriation of the Freed Captives, 1939. Oil on canvas, 71 3/8 x 123 7/8 in. (181.3 x 314.6 cm), Co-stewarded by Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Fund, and Art Bridges Foundation. Commissioned by Buell G. Gallagher and George W. Crawford for Talladega College, Savery Library, Alabama. The commission was supported in part by the American Missionary Association of New York (AMA), TCA2025.4, AB.2025.65.
José Clemente Orozco, Science, Labor, and Art panel from Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood, The New School Mural Cycle, 1930–31, The New School Art Collection. Photo credit: Tom Moore
Gallery Talk led by Dr. Kimia Shahi, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California and 2022-23 Fellow at the Center for the Environment, Harvard University, at the Harvard Art Museums featuring Samuel Coleman's Ships Unloading, New York (1868), on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art. May 3, 2023. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
A group of people gathered in front of Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress (1763) by John Singleton Copley installed alongside objects from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Courtesy Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
Works on paper from the Terra Foundation Art Collection installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo. Photo by Evandro Carlos Nicolau
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William Merritt Chase's Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock (c. 1897), installed alongside objects from the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig / Photo: PUNCTUM / Alexander Schmidt
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Installation of the exhibition FREEDOM: Abstract Expressionism, Tougaloo College and the Civil Rights Movement including, left to right, Albert Eugene Gallatin's Room Space (1937-38) and Arshile Gorky's Mannikin (1931). Photo by Mark Geil
Installation view of Some American Stories, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Boy with Cow (1921) and George Caleb Bingham's The Jolly Flatboatmen (1877-78) at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (September 26, 2024–ongoing). Photo: Luc Demers
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Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford, UK, workshop with the University’s Translator-in-Residence Polly Barton, Curator of Japanese Art Clare Pollard, and Teaching Curator Jim Harris, who brought images by Mary Cassatt, Bertha Lum, and Arthur Dow into dialogue with nineteenth-century Japanese prints, 2023.
David Driskell, Gabriel, 1965. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2023.4
Ammi Phillips Girl in a Red Dress, c. 1835. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.57
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